a. Proof against fire; incombustible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ir- not + reproachable: cf. F. irréprochable. ] Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Berkely ] erred, -- and who is free from error? -- but his intentions were irreproachable. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being justly reproved; irreproachable; blameless; upright. -- Ir`re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*prov"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To provide beforehand. “The materials preprovided.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reproached p. pr. & vb. n. Reproaching. ] [ F. reprocher, OF. reprochier, (assumed) LL. reproriare; L. pref. re- again, against, back + prope near; hence, originally, to bring near to, throw in one's teeth. Cf. Approach. ] 1. To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I thought your marriage fit; else imputation,
For that he knew you, might reproach your life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid. [ 1913 Webster ]

If ye be reproached for the name of Christ. 1 Peter iv. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

That this newcomer, Shame,
There sit not, and reproach us as unclean. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed
His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight.
Repelled the victors. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To upbraid; censure; blame; chide; rebuke; condemn; revile; vilify. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. reproche. See Reproach, v. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach. [ 1913 Webster ]

No reproaches even, even when pointed and barbed with the sharpest wit, appeared to give him pain. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give not thine heritage to reproach. Joel ii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. Neh. ii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Disrepute; discredit; dishonor; opprobrium; invective; contumely; reviling; abuse; vilification; scurrility; insolence; insult; scorn; contempt; ignominy; shame; scandal;; disgrace; infamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. reprochable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Deserving reproach; censurable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Opprobrius; scurrilous. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*proach"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*proach"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who reproaches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reproachful speeches . . .
That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Opprobrious; contumelious; abusive; offensive; insulting; contemptuous; scornful; insolent; scurrilous; disreputable; discreditable; dishonorable; shameful; disgraceful; scandalous; base; vile; infamous. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*proach"ful*ly adv. -- Re*proach"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being without reproach. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Reprobation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Reprobation. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. reprobatus, p. p. of reprobare to disapprove, condemn. See Reprieve, Reprove. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. vi. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved. [ 1913 Webster ]

And strength, and art, are easily outdone
By spirits reprobate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct. “Reprobate desire.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Abandoned; vitiated; depraved; corrupt; wicked; profligate; base; vile. See Abandoned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One morally abandoned and lost. [ 1913 Webster ]

I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reprobated p. pr. & vb. n. Reprobating. ] 1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To condemn; reprehend; censure; disown; abandon; reject. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being reprobate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who reprobates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réprobation, or L. reprobatio. ] 1. The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure. [ 1913 Webster ]

The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Theol.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Theol.) One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation, 2. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to reprobation; expressing reprobation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Reprobative. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To produce again. Especially: (a) To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. (b) To cause to exist again. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again they reproduce the same white light as before. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation. (d) To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a phonograph, a device containing a sounding diaphragm and the needle or stylus that traverses the moving record, for reproducing the sound. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. In a manograph, a device for reproducing the engine stroke on a reduced scale. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. reproduction. ] 1. The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically (Biol.), the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.: asexual reproduction (agamogenesis) and sexual reproduction (gamogenesis). In both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of the parent organism. In asexual reproduction (gemmation, fission, etc.), the detached portions of the organism develop into new individuals without the intervention of other living matter. In sexual reproduction, the detached portion, which is always a single cell, called the female germ cell, is acted upon by another portion of living matter, the male germ cell, usually from another organism, and in the fusion of the two (impregnation) a new cell is formed, from the development of which arises a new individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is reproduced. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. reproductif. ] Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Reproductive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. reproef. See Proof, Reprove. ] 1. Refutation; confutation; contradiction. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Admonition; reprehension; chiding; reprimand; rebuke; censure; blame. See Admonition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. réprouvable. ] Worthy of reproof or censure. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Blamable; blameworthy; censurable; reprehensible; culpable; rebukable. [ 1913 Webster ]

--Re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*prov"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reproved p. pr. & vb. n. Reproving. ] [ F. réprouver, OF. reprover, fr. L. reprobare. See Reprieve, Reprobate, and cf. Reproof. ] 1. To convince. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To disprove; to refute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure. [ 1913 Webster ]

What if thy son [ 1913 Webster ]

Prove disobedient, and, reproved, retort,
“Wherefore didst thou beget me?” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults. [ 1913 Webster ]

He neither reproved the ordinance of John, neither plainly condemned the fastings of the other men. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To reprehend; chide; rebuke; scold; blame censure. -- Reprove, Rebuke, Reprimand. These words all signufy the expression of disapprobation. To reprove implies greater calmness and self-possession. To rebuke implies a more excited and personal feeling. A reproof may be administered long after the offience is committed, and is usually intended for the reformation of the offender; a rebuke is commonly given at the moment of the wrong, and is administered by way of punishment and condemnation. A reprimand proceeds from a person invested with authority, and is a formal and offiscial act. A child is reproved for his faults, and rebuked for his impudence. A military officer is reprimanded for neglect or violation of duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, reproves. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a reproving manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Reproaching one's self. -- Self`-re*proach"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Reproving one's self; reproving by consciousness of guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a self-reproving way. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not liable to be reproached; irreproachable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not reproved. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not having incurred reproof, blameless. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In unreproved pleasures free. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

See obnoxious.
See observable.
See observant.
See obstructive.
See obvious.
See official.
See officious.
See oppressive.
See ordinary.
See ordinate.
See original.
See ornamental.
See orthodox.
See ostentatious.
See pacifiable.
See pacific.
See painful.
See palatable.
See parallelable.
See pardonable.
See partable.
See participant.
See passionate.
See pastoral.
See pathetic.
See patriotic.
See peaceable.
See peaceful.
See pedantic.
See perceivable.
See perceptible.
See perilous.
See permanent.
See personable.
See perspirable.
See persuadable.
See persuasive.
See philanthropic.
See philosophic.
See philosophical.
See physical.
See picturesque.
See pierceable.
See pitiful.
See plain.
See plausible.
See plausive.
See pleadable.
See pleasurable.
See pliable.
See pliant.
See plumb.
See poetic.
See poetical.
See political.
See popular.
See populous.
See portable.
See potable.
See precarious.
See precise.
See pregnant.
See prejudicate.
See prelatical.
See premeditable.
See presentable.
See preservable.
See presumptuous.
See pretentious.
See pretty.
See prevalent.
See priestly.
See primitive.
See princely.
See procurable.
See producible.
See productive.
See professional.
See profitable.
See prolific.
See pronounceable.
See prophetic.
See propitious.
See proportionable.
See proportionate.
See prosperous.
See provable.
See punctilious.
See punctual.
See punishable.
See pure.
See qualifiable.
See quenchable.
See quiet.
See rational.
See readable.
See reasonable.
See recallable.
See reclaimable.
See recognizable.
See reconcilable.
See recoverable.
See recumbent.
See reformable.
See refusable.
See regardable.
See regardant.
See relative.
See relievable.
See reluctant.
See remarkable.
See remediable.
See rememberable.
See remorseful.
See removable.
See remunerative.
See repairable.
See repealable.
See repentant.
See reprovable.
See repugnant.
See requisite.
See requitable.
See resolvable.
See respectable.
See restful.
See retentive.
See returnable.
See revengeful.
See ridable.
See ridiculous.
See rightful.
See romantic.
See rough.
See royal.
See ruinable.
See ruly.
See sacrificial.
See safe.
See sage.
See sailable.
See salable.
See sane.
See sanguine.
See sanitary.
See satisfactory.
See satisfiable.
See saturable.
See savory.
See scalable.
See scaly.
See scholarly.
See scholastic.
See scientific.
See scornful.
See scriptural.
See sculptural.
See seaworthy.
See sectarian.
See secular.
See sedentary.
See selfish.
See sentient.
See sentimental.
See serviceable.
See severe.
See shamefaced.
See shamefast.
See shapely.
See shy.
See sick.
See sicker.
See sightly.
See simple.
See sinewy.
See sizable.
See sleek.
See slumberous.
See sly.
See smooth.
See smotherable.
See smutty.
See sober.
See sociable.
See social.
See solemn.
See soliciutous.
See solvable.
See speakable.
See speedy.
See spiritual.
See spontaneous.
See sportful.
See sportsmanlike.
See statutable.
See steadfast.
See steady.
See stormy.
See stout.
See strong.
See subduable.
See subject.
See submissive.
See subordinate.
See substantial.
See successive.
See succorable.
See suggestive.
See suitable.
See sunny.
See superfluous.
See supple.
See sure.
See surpassable.
See susceptible.
See suspect.
See suspectable.
See suspicious.
See sustainable.
See sweet.
See syllogistical.
See symbolic.
See sympathetic.
See systematic.
See tamable.
See tame.
See teachable.
See technical.
See tellable.
See tenable.
See tender.
See terrestrial.
See terrific.
See thankful.
See theological.
See thinkable.
See thirsty.
See thorny.
See thoughtful.
See tidy.
See tillable.
See toothsome.
See touchable.
See traceable.
See tractable.
See tragic.
See tranquil.
See transferable.
See translatable.
See transmutable.
See transparent.
See transpassable.
See traversable.
See tremulous.
See trimphant.
See trustworthy.
See trusty.
See tumultous.
See tunable.
See uniform.
See usable.
See useful.
See vanquishable.
See variant.
See venerable.
See venomous.
See veracious.
See verdant.
See veritable.
See vigilant.
See vigorous.
See virtuous.
See vital.
See vitrifiable.
See vocal.
See voidable.
See voluptuous.
See voyageable.
See vulgar.
See walkable.
See warlike.
See watchful.
See watery.
See wealthy.
See wearable.
See weary.
See welcome.
See wet.
See wholesome.
See wieldsome.
See willful.
See wily.
See witty.
See womanly.
See workable.
See workmanlike.
See worldly.
See worshipful.
See wrathful.
See writable.
See zealous.
------ and the like.
[ 1913 Webster ]